Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1887-08-14
LOCAL AND OTuER sUTr.
Scraps from ske Notebooks OF she
sensfmePs Reporter.

scraps from she Notebooks Of shs
sensfmePs Reporter.
Hon. Thomas Wren returned from MI
Hope yesterday.
Bishop Whitaker's school for girls will
| begin Thursday. August %.
The usual religious services will be held
at the Episcopal Church to-day.
The water in the Carson river is lower
| than ever before known at this season.
Thousands Of acres Of new lands have
| been put under cultivation in Nevada this
year.
Minneapolis Tribune: Paradoxical ss II
NAV seem, ball dresses are costly, but
don't come high.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Liddle left last
evening by private conveyance for Selig-
man, White Pine.
Judge A. L. Fitzgerald, ]. L. Wines,
Esq, and W. E. Griffin, are expected home
from Phoebe to-day.
Frank O'Brien, q murderer. was shot to
death at Hermosillo, Mexico, last Thurs-
day. O'Brien was an American.
Mrs. R. Sadler and children returned
home Yesterday from q three weeks pleas
ure trip in Huntington and Diamond VAL
legs.
J, J. Mcmillan, q miner, died in Austin,
Lander county, August 8, after a lingering
illness. Deceased was q native OF Canada,
aged 80 years.
Secretary Of State Dormer has the thanks
of the SENTINEL for copies OF the Senate
and Assembly Journals Of the thirteenth
session OF the Nevada Legislature.
Annie Mercer. of Missaukee county,
Michigan, promises to become a giantess.
She 10 only in her twelfth year, and yet
she Is q triie over ak feet in stature.
A syndicate has been formed to buy the
California and Nevada narrow-gauge road,
running out Of Reno, and push it forward
TO Sonora. Tuolumne county, California.
The Fall term OF Mt. St. Mary's Acsd-
envy begins oil the 29th instant. For
terms. etc., address the Lady Superior.
See advertisement under the head Of
New To-day"
Pinenuts are said by the Indians to be
very plentiful In the Table mountain
range, Humboldt county, this year. They
will thank the Great Spirit for the same
by having a pinenus dance at Lovelock.
At Hanford, CAL, August s, q terrible
fight took place, in which Rufus Abbott,
Charles Betterhardt. William Clough and
John Harris took part. Betterhsrdt was
stabbed in the abdomen and cannot live.
At Petaluma, CAL, August 8, Marshal
Blume arrested William Hynes and Miss
Lesry, who ran away from Redwood City
about three weeks since. Miss Leary looks
like q girl of about 16 years Of age.
Hynes ia probably %.
Another rich quartz ledge has been
found near Shasta. An assay OF the rock,
says she Shasta Courier. showed the aston
ishing result of Sl4.6i6 per ton. Experts
say that the ore is tellurium. The ledge
Is about two feet wide.
A Connecticut Avenue belle discovered
the other day that her pug had toothache.
She took him to . dentist, who found
thirteen cavities. They were filled with
gold. and the bill for $40 was paid most
cheerfully by the young lady.
D. W. Mckenzie. a w~ell-known mining
man. who has operated in Utah. Nevada,
Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona, as
we'll as in California, hiss just sold his
gold mine. the Mckenzie, located in ANA
dor county. TO w. s. Chapman OF San
Francisco for $50. 900.
Young James Black. who is engaged to
marry old lady Moore at Woodland, CAL,
proves not to be a pauper, but to have q
father worth $500, 900. Mrs. Moore's fam
lily are now as earnestly in favor OF the
marriage being c~onsummsted as they were
heretofore frantically opposed to II.